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100	1		_aPIERSON, Paul _98420
245	1	0	_aIncreasing returns, path dependence, and the study of politics
260			_c2000
520	3		_aIt is increasingly common for social scientis to describe political processes as "path dependent." The concept, however, is often employed without careful elaboration. This article conceptualizes path dependence as a social process grounded in a dynamic of "increasing returns." Reviewing recent literature in economics and suggesting extensions to the world of politcs, the article demonstrates that increasing returns processes are likely to be prevalente, and that good analytical foundations exist for exploring their causes and consequences. The investigation of increasing returns can provide a more rigorous framework for developing some of the key claims of recent scholarship in historical institutionalism; Specific patterns of timing and sequence matter; a wide range of social outcomes may be possible; large consequences may result from relatively small or contigent events; particular courses of action, once introduced, can be almost impossible to reverse; and consequently, politcal development is punctuated by critical moments or junctures that shape the basic contours of social life
773	0	8	_tAmerican Political Science Review _g94, 2, p. 251-268 _d, 2000 _w
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998			_a20030131 _bCassio _cCassio
998			_a20060724 _b1618^b _cQuiteria
999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c10774 _d10774
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